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Prohibition of double employment.
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16.—(1) An employer shall not permit an employee to do for him any form of work on any day on which the employee has done any form of work for any other employer, except where the aggregate of the periods for which the employee does work for such employers on that day does not exceed the period for which such employee could lawfully be employed to do work for one employer on that day.
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(2) Whenever an employer employs an employee in contravention of this section, the employer shall be guilty of an offence under this section and the employee, if he is a young person, shall also be guilty of an offence under this section.
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(4) Whenever an employer is prosecuted for an offence under this section, it shall be a defence for him to prove either that he did not know, or could not by reasonable enquiry have known, that the employee had done work for any other employer on the day in respect of which the prosecution is brought or that he did not know, or could not by reasonable enquiry have known, that the aggregate of the periods for which the employee did work on that day exceeded the period for which he could lawfully be employed to do work for one employer on that day.
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